Christie Angel returns to the mayor's office

Christie Angel, who left mayor's office several years ago to become a lobbyist, is returning to serve as a deputy chief of staff for Mayor Michael B. Coleman.

Christie Angel, who left mayor's office several years ago to become a lobbyist, is returning to serve as a deputy chief of staff for Mayor Michael B. Coleman.

Angel, 47,was Coleman's aide when he was City Council president in the 1990s and went with him down the hall to the mayor's office after Coleman took office in 2000. She served as a deputy chief of staff then. Shortly afterward -- by at least 2002 -- she took a job at AT&T as a lobbyist. Most recently, Angel was a vice president at the Sean P. Dunn & Associates lobbying firm.

In 2009, she led the committee that helped Coleman choose Walter Distelzweig as the city's police chief.

"In her capacities both inside and outside city government, I have been benefiting from Christie's wisdom and expertise for two decades now," Coleman said in a statement his office released this morning.

Angel will oversee "external affairs and services" for the mayor's office, according to the statement. She's replacing Greg Davies, who begins a new job as the city's utilities director on Monday.